The modern Olympic movement was introduced to China and developed, going through a long process. In 1894, when preparing for the first Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee issued an invitation to China. At that time, the Qing Dynasty did not reply because it did not understand the Olympic Games. After 1904, the Olympic movement gradually attracted the attention of some people of insight, many Chinese newspapers and periodicals had reported the news of the third Olympic Games, and some domestic newspapers and magazines began to report on it, and the Olympic spirit could be spread on the land of China. In 1906, a Chinese magazine introduced Olympic history. On October 24, 1907, Mr. Zhang Boling, a famous educator, delivered a famous speech on the theme of the Olympic Games at the award ceremony of the Tianjin Academic Games. He pointed out that although many European countries have little chance of winning, they still send athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. He suggested that China form a team to participate in the Olympic Games. After the London Olympics in 1908, a newspaper in Tianjin once again introduced the history of the Olympic Movement, and also proposed to strive for this grand event, holding a special Olympic lecture. From October 18 to 22, 1910, inspired by the slogans of "Striving to Participate in the Olympic Games at an Early Date" and "Striving to Hold the Olympic Games in China at an Early Date", the first National Games in Chinese history - the "First Sports League meeting of the National School Branch Team" was held in Nanjing. In 1913, the Chinese government participated in the initiation of the Olympic movement in Asia, the Far East Games (originally named the "Far East Olympic Games"), which was the pioneer of the Olympic movement in Asia, and China was one of the initiators. At the Far East Games, Chinese athletes achieved good results and showed good sportsmanship.
In 1915, the IOC called the Organizing Committee of the Far Eastern Games, recognized the Far Eastern Sports Association, and invited China to participate in the next Olympic Games and IOC meetings. In 1922, Wang Zhengyan of China was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee. In 1924, the predecessor of the Chinese Olympic Committee (the All-China Sports Association) was established in nanjing. China has successively joined 8 international sports federations such as athletics, swimming, gymnastics, tennis, weightlifting, boxing, football, and basketball. At the 8th Olympic Games, three Chinese tennis players participated in the exhibition match. At the 9th Olympic Games in 1928, China sent an observer Song Ruhai to participate and conducted an inspection work. In 1931, the All-China Sports Association established in Nanjing was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the "Chinese Olympic Committee", and the history of China's official participation in the Olympic Games began. In 1932, the 10th Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, USA. China did not want to send players to participate, and only Shen Siliang, director general of the National Sports Association, went to watch the ceremony. However, the puppet Manchus supported by Japanese imperialism planned to send Liu Changchun and Yu Xizhi to participate in the Olympic Games as "Manchukuo" athletes, and public opinion was in an uproar, and Liu Changchun also refused. Under the strong pressure of public opinion, the National Government decided to represent China in the Olympic Games with Liu Changchun and Yu Xizhi as athletes, Song Junfu as coaches, and Shen Siliang as the team leader. With no funds, Zhang Xueliang personally funded Liu Changchun and others. At the opening ceremony, Liu Changchun was the team leader and represented China in the Olympic Games. At the opening ceremony, Liu Changchun led the flag, Shen Siliang, Song Junfu, chinese students and Chinese Americans Liu Xuesong, Shen Guoquan and Tuo Ping formed the Chinese delegation. Yu Xiwei was unable to make the trip due to obstruction and sabotage by the Japanese side. Liu Changchun, who finished fifth and sixth in the group in the 100m and 200m preliminaries, failed to qualify for the finals, but he remained in China's Olympic history as the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic Games. After the conclusion of the 10th Olympic Games, a delegation of three people, including IOC Member Schmidt, Swiss Commissioner Ma Suli and Li Mi, was entrusted by IOC President Bayeux-Latour to visit China. The expedition team first arrived in Beijing (then known as Beiping) and then set off for Shanghai. The Shanghai expedition condemned Japan's war atrocities of aggression against China. The first IOC to visit China was Japanese Jigoro Kana, the founder of Japanese judo, who was elected to the Japanese Committee of the International Olympic Committee in 1909. In 1915 he led the Japanese team to Shanghai to participate in the 2nd Far Eastern Games, and in 1921 he represented the International Olympic Committee at the 5th Far Eastern Games in Shanghai. At the 11th Olympic Games in 1936, China sent a delegation of 140 people to participate in seven sports such as basketball, football, swimming, athletics, weightlifting, boxing, and cycling.
At the 14th Olympic Games in 1948, China sent 33 male athletes to compete in five sports, including basketball, football, athletics, swimming and cycling, but none of them reached the final. The 15th Olympic Games were held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. The People's Republic of China officially accepted the invitation late, sending only a delegation of 40 people, but when the delegation arrived in Helsinki, the competition was nearing its end, and only Wu Chuanyu participated in the 100-meter backstroke competition. The "Republic of China" refused to attend the Olympic Games.
At the 1954 IOC Annual Meeting in Athens, the All-China Sports Federation was recognized as the Chinese Olympic Committee by a vote of 23:21, but at the same time retained the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", setting a precedent for recognizing two National Olympic Committees in one country. The IOC later decided to allow both Olympic Committees to participate in the 16th Olympic Games at the same time, and stipulated that the names used by the two delegations were "Taiwan China" and "Beijing China".
Between 1952 and 1979, for political reasons, China did not participate in the olympic games of the period, while Chinese Taipei sent teams to participate.
At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Taiwan's Yang Chuanguang won the silver medal in the decathlon, the first Olympic medal won by Chinese.
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Taiwanese women's Ji Zheng won a bronze medal in the 80m hurdles, and she was the first Chinese female athlete to win an Olympic medal.
In 1979, the International Olympic Committee restored china's legitimate seat and decided that the name of the Olympic Committee of the People's Republic of China should be "Chinese Olympic Committee" and the name of the Olympic Committee in Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan should be "Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee". Since then, Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have had the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games.
The Chinese delegation participated in the Winter Olympics twice in 1980 and 1984.
In July 1984, at the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA, the Chinese Olympic Committee sent a large sports delegation to participate in the event. Fifty-two years ago, China participated in the tenth Olympic Games for the first time, also in Los Angeles. At that time, only Liu Changchun was alone. This time, 225 athletes participated in the remaining 16 major events except football, hockey, boxing, equestrianism and modern pentathlon. The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee also sent 67 athletes to participate in athletics, swimming, weightlifting and other competitions, which was the first time that the sons and daughters of China on both sides of the Taiwan Strait had met at the Summer Olympic Games. The Chinese sports delegation returning to the Olympic games showed off its style as an emerging world sports power on the first day after the opening of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Xu Haifeng's gold medal in the men's pistol slow-fire competition is the first gold medal decided at the Olympic Games, and the shame of the "sick man of East Asia" for more than a hundred years.
In 1991, Beijing, China, applied to the International Olympic Committee to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, but it was unsuccessful by a difference of two votes.
In 1999, the Beijing Municipal Government again applied to host the 2008 Olympic Games, and with the approval of the Chinese Olympic Committee, the mayor personally went to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee to submit the application. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation achieved a good result of ranking third in both the gold medal table and the medal table, marking the beginning of China's sports level into the ranks of the world.
At 22:10 Beijing time on July 13, 2001, Beijing won the right to host the 29th 2008 Olympic Games at the 112th Plenary Session of the International Olympic Committee.
On August 8, 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games opened smoothly.
On 10 February 2010, the IOC held its 122nd Plenary Session in Vancouver, Canada, to vote for Nanjing as the host city for the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014.
At 20:00 on August 16, 2014, the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games opened in Nanjing, China. The Nanjing Youth Olympic Games is another major Olympic event in China after the Beijing Olympic Games, the first Youth Olympic Games held in China, and the second Olympic event held in China.
On July 31, 2015 (Beijing time), IOC President Bach officially announced at the 128th meeting of the International Olympic Committee that Beijing had won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
